A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, took place in Moscow.

Mott MacDonald has been appointed by Alghanim International to provide multidisciplinary engineering services for the onshore construction of remote header manifolds (RHM) in the south and east of Kuwait on behalf of Kuwait Oil. The firm’s role includes the design of the RHMs and all other associated works.

Cimic Group’s construction company, Leighton Contractors, has been awarded a contract by Australia Pacific LNG (APLNG) to deliver gas field development works in the Surat Basin, Queensland. The Collaborative Well Delivery (CWD) project is expected to generate revenue of approximately $300 million to Leighton Contractors over two years.

Schlumberger announced the release of the Infinity* dissolvable plug-and-perf system. This unique solution uses fully degradable fracture balls and fully degradable seats instead of plugs to isolate zones during well stimulation.

Schlumberger Limited (NYSE:SLB) announced today an agreement to acquire a minority equity interest in Eurasia Drilling Company Limited (“EDC”). The agreement extends the successful long-term relationship enjoyed by the two companies within the strategic alliance signed in 2011, which has enabled deployment of a range of drilling and well engineering services to customers in the Russia land conventional drilling market.

OneSubsea, a Cameron (NYSE: CAM) and Schlumberger (NYSE: SLB) company, Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. (NYSE: HLX) and Schlumberger today announced that they have entered into a letter of intent to form an alliance to develop technologies and deliver services to optimize the cost and efficiency of subsea well intervention systems.